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Quotes by Producer
"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail."
107
"If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them."
96
"It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose."
94
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
85
"I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer."
85
"There are only two classes - first class and no class."
83
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever."
81
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
79
"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."
78
"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
75
"You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air."
Work,
74
"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"
73
"Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening."
71
"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
71
"I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is."
70
"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."
69
"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."
69
"The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld."
69
"Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one."
69
"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
69
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
69
"The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be."
68
"Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad."
68
"Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it."
68
"Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine."
68
"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
67
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."
66
"We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there."
66
"Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can."
65
"I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now."
65
"I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will."
64
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